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Hiring and retaining qualified staff, and updating the knowledge and skills of existing technology staff

BYOD/Mobile IAM, NAC, NetSight, and Purview improve the overall user experience for the technology staff. Extreme Networks makes it easier for the staff to manage the network, which helps retain staff.

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Optimizing the use of technology in teaching and learning in collaboration with academic leadership, including understanding the appropriate level of technology to use

Purview provides direct feedback on technology usage and success; tracks who is using what application when. IdentiFi wireless network infrastructure provides a rock-solid digital learning environment.

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Developing IT funding models that sustain core service, support innovation, and facilitate growth

Extreme Networks provides a high-productivity, low-operating expense network infrastructure that maximizes the return on your budget.

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Purview analytics and Mobile IAM make it easier to individualize education and better understand and learn from the patterns of the top students.

Improving student outcomes through an institutional approach that strategically leverages technology

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Demonstrating the business value of information technology and how technology and the IT organization can help the institution achieve its goals

Involves IT communicating with the rest of the organization. Purview provides the basis for IT dashboards connecting the use of technology to student outcomes.

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Increasing the IT organization’s capacity for managing change, despite differing community needs, priorities, and abilities

Extreme Networks offers flexible network control allowing the organization to manage access on the network based on parameters including user, device type, location, and time of day, rather than simple ON/OFF policy for all.

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Providing user support in the new normal — mobile, online education, cloud, and BYOD environments

IdentiFi Wireless with NetSight, Mobile IAM, and Purview provide the means to securely manage device proliferation for high density wireless connectivity.

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Developing an enterprise IT architecture that can respond to changing conditions and new opportunities

Extreme Networks builds on the OneFabric architecture, which provides a unified vision across the entire wired and wireless network.

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Developing mobile, cloud, and digital security policies that work for most of the institutional community

Mobile IAM with NetSight provides flexible policy management that integrates with LDAP and Active Directory.

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Balancing agility, openness, and security

Mobile IAM, Purview, and SDN integration with firewalls provide ideal balance between tight security and verification. With the flexibility to easily implement a range of policies to fit divergent needs.

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